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Insurance Agency Management
If At First You Don't Succeed...
"Try, try again!" I can't begin to tell you how many times my grandmother drummed that saying into my head as a child. She had had a ...
Insurance Agency Management
Focus Dadgummit!
Our business is helping agencies develop and grow. The basis for that business was, in the beginning, being successful in doing the same ...
Insurance Agency Management
How Much Will You Grow Next Year?
I’m guessing that by the time you read this it will be just before New Year’s Eve. If you are like most people you will be looking to ...
Insurance Agency Management
Better, Faster, Easier, Cheaper, Bigger
Do you use job descriptions in your agency? I’m not a big fan of job descriptions because I think they are too limiting. You’ve heard ...
Insurance Agency Management
Increase Office Hours to Grow Your Insurance Agency
While on vacation in Honolulu some years back, my son broke a previously repaired front tooth. Because he was a teenager, this was a big deal to ...
Insurance Agency Management
Hire for Attitude Train for Skill
There was a discussion I participated in recently on an on line forum for pilots which I frequent regarding how to hire salespeople. To be ...
Insurance Agency Management
Mass Produced Customization
I have written recently that I believe the insurance agency distribution model is going to go through a rapid and irreversible set of changes that ...
Insurance Agency Management
Campaigning and Serving
It’s political campaign season and in my house this is a subject of a great deal of attention as my wife is a political consultant. While we ...
Insurance Sales
The 3 Acts of Selling Insurance
As a young man I read Ernest Hemingway with great enthusiasm. Several of his books discussed bullfighting and I’ve always wanted to attend a ...
Insurance Sales
Success in Business Comes from Never Giving Up
Hard work, long hours and vision as I have pointed out are required to be successful in building any business including an insurance agency. ...